Scientists always have the potential to write "their own best papers"

BySimpleinsomnia

Scientists may wish that the article being written by themselves will be excellent, but "the opportunity for the next writing to be completed for the scientist to date is the same as before "The research result of" Albert Barabashi, a researcher at North Eastern University in Massachusetts, Boston, announced the research result.

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It was the reason why I announced the research result that "the next writing for scientists will be the best possible finish to date,Albert Lazlo BarabashiA research team of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, who was in charge of guidance.

Mr. Barabashi analyzed thousands of research papers, the articles most frequently cited are equal to those published early in the career as a scientist, those published in the middle term and those published in the latter half It became clear that it exists. The fact that Mr. Barabasy's research trends such as "well-documented findings", "great discoveries", "highly influential research results", etc. tend to be announced early in the career as a scientist It seems to be inconsistent with. However, Balabashi said that there is no contradiction between them. The reason is that it seems that the number of publicly released articles is declining as the number of publications of the papers is examined as more carriers are acquired. In other words, it will be impossible to publish influential papers at the latter stage of career because the number of times to publish the papers itself is decreasing.

By classifying thousands of articles by author and plotting the horizontal axis as a scientific career and height as the number of times cited, it is as follows. The red dot indicates a paper cited many times, that is, "excellent paper".


When you arrange only this red point, it becomes as follows and it seems that it seems that the "excellent paper" seems to be published equally at any timing of career as a scientist. It seems that the number of papers published in the latter half of the career is small, but this is because the number of papers written decreases in the latter part of the career in the first place.


Barabashi commented on this research result, "We have the possibility to have the greatest success so far for papers published at any time."

PhysicistRichard P. FeynmanIt is like this when arranging papers published by time series. Certainly we have released excellent papers in the early, middle and late stages of career, and you can see how the number of papers published as the latter half of the career is decreasing.


Mr. Barabasi invented a simple mathematical model in order to ascertain whether there is a possibility of equality success in the paper which was truly written. This means that "the impact of the paper" depends only on two factors, "luck" and "certain quality".


Barbasi analyzed the paper published by 2887 physicists in order to measure the ability of individual scientists to influence the hit of the thesis. As a result, it turned out that the elements of "luck" work evenly for any scientist. Furthermore, to examine the quality of the paper, I examined "the number of times a paper was cited", it seems that this was proportional to the logarithm of the time I worked on the paper.

Initially, Mr. Barabasi had predicted that the quality of the paper would increase to the extent that it would add career as a scientist. However, surprisingly the quality of the paper was almost constant regardless of what was written during the career. It is a shocking fact that the quality of the paper scientists write up as their own research results is almost unchanged from what we first wrote, and Mr. Barabas himself also said that "the quality of the paper is born by I feel very disgusted. "

The quality of scientists' papers that have received the Nobel Prize and other authoritative awards is at a high standard, but not necessarily the notorious scientists have published "excellent papers" It is said that it is necessary for luck to become an excellent paper "....